[francis_vaz]

Originally Posted by drsnt

I have been using this since beginning. excellent spread, good cutoff, mediocre high beam, has been working flawlessly.

Thanks for the link, those lights do look promising.
Also, did the LED fog lamps fit in perfectly without interfering with the wiper fluid tank?
I also got the floor lamination done the same day we took delivery for the car, from my local accessory dealer, costed 2200 bucks.

Originally Posted by drsnt

waiting for your mood lightning DIY

Mood lighting will take some time, as the fuse taps I ordered from AliExpress were of the wrong size, thanks to the seller. Waiting for a new one to arrive soon.

Also planning puddle lamps. Already ordered one waiting to receive.

Cool, do post the pictures when done.

[drsnt]

The led bulb I placed in fogs have flexible copper heat sink and so I belive that it was the reason for not interfering with fluid tank. It was straight fit. I even did not realize the problem persist till mentioned by you

[francis_vaz]

Originally Posted by drsnt

The led bulb I placed in fogs have flexible copper heat sink and so I belive that it was the reason for not interfering with fluid tank. It was straight fit. I even did not realize the problem persist till mentioned by you

Lucky you.
I might have to do some jugaad to make sure it doesn't interfere with the wiper fluid tank.
Waiting for the car to come back from the repair work, will get it done then.

[francis_vaz]

Mood lighting DIY complete.

Some pictures:

Link to the DIY:

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/diy-d...ti-ertiga.html (DIY: Mood Lighting for the Maruti Ertiga)

[francis_vaz]

Greeting's everyone!

The giant is a year and half old today. The mileage is a little shy of 25000kms.
Gave the giant a much deserved detailing session. Below are some before and after pictures.

Work in progress:






Done:

Few updates:

1) Had an incident where the front bumper, spoiler and the fog light cover was changed due to the negligence of a teen.
I didn't notice it first, but due to the impact the LED fog lamp's holder broke and the lamp came out from the assembly and was hanging by the wire for it's dear life. Luckily it didn't come out from the bumper, else would have been crushed under the tire. Dropped a message to the seller and also raised a dispute since it was less than 15 days after I had confirmed the order (Although didn't quite need the dispute as the seller sent the holders right away at his expense, so I cancelled the dispute later.). The seller was kind enough to send two pairs of plastic holders, extra washers and some screws. But it didn't quite end there, the impact had also broken the rear wiper washer fluid motor so had to change that as well.

In case you are facing the same trouble of the broken plastic holder, here's a link to the holders sold separately on AliExpress.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2pcs...3ef82e0eNOXKmy

2) The "rattle feature" has been enabled past the 24000km mark. I try hard to ignore the sounds, but it turns out there is a new one every time.

3) No issues (apart from the rattle's) with the car till now, its working absolutely fine. :touch wood:

4) Also got the LED interfering with the wiper fluid motor problem solved, added a nut and some washers to bring it ahead by ~5mm.

Sneak Peak of what's coming up:

Stay tuned!

[francis_vaz]

^^^ DIY is up. You can check it out here;
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/diy-d...ml#post4489321

Thank you!

[francis_vaz]

** 2 years/30,000Kms update **

Greetings everyone.
It's been a long time since I have posted any update on the car.
The car completed 2 years in May this year and has reached the 30K milestone.

Some birthday pictures:

The car is munching miles effortlessly and fuss free. I got the 30K service done a little earlier than what the manual suggested. The reason being the car giving out dark grey smoke under hard acceleration and also some during idling. I knew the EGR valve had to be cleaned at 30K service interval and hence dropped the car for the 30K service with strict instructions to not wash the car. I had planned on getting the intercooler drained and cleaned as well, but as I wanted the car the next day I skipped the intercooler bit and postponed it for a later date. Below are the pictures shared by my SA, the EGR valve had a lot of carbon deposition. Apologies for the blurry pictures.

One of the headlights conked off a while back, I was confused between LED and halogen bulbs. I decided to go for LED bulbs this time. Opted for the brand CSSUNNYLIGHT after reading positive reviews in the LED lightning thread on TeamBHP. These are CSP type LED and hence went for it.

Some pictures of the LED bulb:

During installation I found the dust cap was interfering with the cooling unit of the LED, did some brainstorming and installed the LED within the dust cap leaving the dust cap intact.

After firing it up for the first time, it gave out a weird pattern.

I tried rotating the bulbs and swapping them but there was no change in the output.
I was about to message the seller and ask them about this problem when I noticed the orientation of both bulbs was not same, so I changed the orientation of the bulb on the driver side to the one on the passenger side & the light worked absolutely fine; the output was just as I expected.

Bulb cut-off:




Output without fog lights:


Output with fog lights:


High & Low Beams:

Thank You!